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How Can Democracy Possibly Work Under Such Conditions?
Pervasive pessimism and nostalgia, waning support for a racial reckoning, anti-feminist retrenchment, and so many conspiracies… A deep dive into the…
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One Year of Democracy Americana
A personal reflection on the chances and pitfalls of publicly engaging with the political conflict from a precarious academic position – and what the…
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Do Americans Value Democracy?
Brace yourselves, this isn’t going to be pretty: A deep dive into the best survey data we have on the ideas and attitudes that shape the political…
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Thomas Zimmer
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In Defense of My Students
The idea of the campus as a stronghold of leftwing extremism and authoritarian censoriousness stands in stark contrast to what’s happening inside the…
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“Faith and Family” vs Democracy
On the normalization of Mike Johnson, the media’s inclination to accommodate power, and the perpetuation of “real American” extremism
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Thomas Zimmer
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Is This Democracy
An ongoing conversation with Lily Mason on the struggle over democracy in American politics and history
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Why America’s Elites Love to Decry “Polarization”
The fact that it obscures the actual political conflict is the feature, not the bug of the “polarization” narrative – A Manifesto, Part II
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Democracy Americana
Democracy Americana
Reflections on American democracy and its discontents
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